Victorian Community History Awards

The Victorian Community History Awards are held annually to recognise the contributions made by Victorians in the preservation of the State’s history, and to recognise excellence in historical research. The effect of the VCHA over the period from 1998 to the present has been the stimulation of community history, the lifting of standards and the fostering of diversity and originality. [1]

History

The Victorian Community History Awards were established and sponsored in 1997 by Information Victoria. The judges have always been appointed by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, and among the first were Professor Weston Bate, Professor A. G. L. Shaw, and senior journalist at The Age, John Lahey. [2]

Funding was suspended in 2006 to provide additional funds for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. After 2010 Information Victoria Bookshop withdrew support for the program, but after a vigorous campaign by the RHSV for the continuance of the Awards, the Baillieu government accepted a submission from the Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) to continue the program for a further four year period. [3]

From 2011 the Awards were administered by the RHSV in partnership with PROV.[4]

In 2012, following consultation between the Public Record Office Victoria and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, award categories were slightly altered and renamed, as below:

Victorian Community History Awards, from 2012

Victorian Community History Award

History Publication Award

Special awards

Local History - Small Publication Award

Local History Project Award

Young Historians Award (15–18 years)

Collaborative Community History Award

Multimedia History Award

Historical Interpretation Award

Victorian Community History Awards, 1998 to 2011

Victorian Community History Awards - Overall Winner

Best Community Research, Registers and Records

Best Collaborative / Community Work

Best Print / Publication - Commercial

Best Print / Publication - Self or Community Publication

Best Print / Publication

In 2011 the Best Print / Publication category was divided into Best Commercial Publication and Best Self or Community Publication. See above.

Best Walk / Tour

Best Exhibit or Multimedia

Best Audio-Visual / Multimedia

In 2011 Best Exhibit and Best Audio-Visual / Multimedia were combined as a category. See above.

Best Exhibit / Display

In 2011 Best Exhibit and Best Audio-Visual / Multimedia were combined as a category. See above.

Special awards

Notes

  1. The Victorian Community History Awards, by Carole Woods in Victorian Historical Journal, June 2013, Vol 84 No 1, p 159. Royal Historical Society of Victoria: Melbourne, 2013.
  2. The Victorian Community History Awards, by Carole Woods in Victorian Historical Journal, June 2013, Vol 84 No 1, p 159. Royal Historical Society of Victoria: Melbourne, 2013.
  3. The Victorian Community History Awards, by Carole Woods in Victorian Historical Journal, June 2013, Vol 84 No 1, p 159. Royal Historical Society of Victoria: Melbourne, 2013.
  4. The Victorian Community History Awards, by Carole Woods in Victorian Historical Journal, June 2013, Vol 84 No 1, p 159. Royal Historical Society of Victoria: Melbourne, 2013.

References

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